Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.

The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.

The real adventure is the reality of Life.

On the music side, I'm a cross between maybe that Texas songwriter and that Tom Petty feel.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

The footprints of an Angel in your life are Love.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

The most important thing about education is appetite.